Improvement in hay and cotton-presses



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Letters .Patent No. 94,347, dated August 3l, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN HAY AND COTTON-PRESSES.

The Schedule referred to in these Lett ers Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known' that I, JOHN SIMPSON, of Chester, in the district of Chester, and State of South Carolina, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Presses for Cotton and other Substances; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof', which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ,of thisspecitication.

This invention relates to improvements in presses for baling cotton, hay, Sto., designed to provide a more simple and effective press than any now in use.

The invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, for discharging the bale from the press.

Figure 1 represents a front elevation of my improved press, and

Figure 2 represents a transverse sectional elevation of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. l

I arrange two followers, A and B, to work in one case, to and from each other, and between which the substance to be pressed is placed.

Each follower is provided, at each end, with toothed racks D, those of the upper follower projecting downward, and those ot' the lower one projecting upward.

Between the racks of each follower, at each end, toothed pinions E are arranged toV gear intothem, so that when turned in one direction, they will force the followers together, and away from eachother when turned'in the opposite direction.

, On the same shafts to which the pinions are secured are large spur-wheels F, into which other pinions Gr, on a common driving-shaft, H, .running from end to end of the press, work.

around the substance The said shaft may be operated by winch-handles, cranks, or otherwise. g

The case is provided with doors on each side, for the admission of the substance to be packed, and for the removal of the bales. I

If required, the upper fcllower may be raised s`o high as to work out of gear with the pinions, and it may be removed, for filling the case with the substance to be packed.

To facilitate the removal of the bale from the press,

I provide one or more cords, K, fastened at one end of the shaft H, lso as to be wound thereon when the followers are separated, and secured at the other end to hooks at the topv of the press, after passing across the space wherein the substance. is to beV packed, and along the opposite side, as shown in iig. 2, so as tc pass forming the bala-'and draw it out as the said cord is wound on the shaft.

The shaft H is provided with ratchetfwheels, which, together with suitable pawlskserve tohold the sha-ft and the followers in any required position.

Having thus described my invention,

I Aclaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. The cords K, when so arranged as to be wound shaft H as the followers are automatically upon the shown and described, for 'the moved apart, as herein purpose set forth.

4 2. The amangement of the followers A and B, racks D, pinions E, spur-wheels F, shaft H, and its pinions G, ratchets L,and `pawls M, all arranged to operate together substantially as herein shown and described.

The above specification of my invention signed by me, this 21st day of February, 1869.

Witnesses: JOHN SIMPSON.

J. M. MCDANIEL, GEORGE McCormick. 

